Turnip-gathering device



TURNIP GATHERING DEVICE Filed Aug. 22 1921 Patented @et 3G, 1.923.

TURNIP-GATHERING DEVICE.

Application iiledrAugust 22, 1921. Serial No. 494,133.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VcLAv OTAKAR DEYL, a citizen of the CzechoslovakianRepublic, residing at Vinor, Bohemia, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Turnip-Gathering Devices, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to devices for digging up turnips and the like. Insuch devices as at present constructed it happens that a good many ofthe turnips dug up remain covered by the soil thrown up by the machineand are thus lost.

It is an object of my invention to provide a device by means of whichthe lifted turnips prior to leaving the machine areY subjected to ashaking motion during which the turnip remains in the machine and bywhich the soil is shaken 0E sideways, so that the turnip freed of thesoil is finally deposited on the ground.

In the drawings aiiixed to this specification and forming part thereof,a device is illustrated embodying my invention by way of example. In thedrawings- Fig. 1 is a side-elevation and Fig-2 a plan while Figs. 8 andt are similar views of a turnip lifter with the shaking device accordingto the invention, applied to it.

The turnip lifter essentially consists of the frame 1 supported upon twofront steering wheels and two back driving wheels. lWhen the turniplifter is not driven by a motor, one of the back wheels operates theshaking device according to this invention, `which together with theusual lifting plowshares 8 is mounted upon the frame a adapted to swingvertically around the axle 5 of back wheels.

The shaking device has the form of a basket or skeleton trough, thelower portion of which forms a stationary guide in the shape of a fork 6with a plurality of prongs, which fork forms a continuation of theshares 3 in such a manner, that the turnip the top of which has eensliced off and which has been lifted out of the ground is pushed by thepressure of the soil on to and along the fork.

' The upright extensions 3 of both shares 3 support in their rear insuitable bearings the vertical shafts 7, upon which several pairs ofarms 8 are mounted Vwhich are adapted to move simultaneously to theright an d to the left.

The arms 8 are vertically adjustable upon vthe shafts 7 and suitablybent so as to slightly converge in the rear to stop or de lay the turnippassing through the basket. The swinging movement of the arms 8 iseffected by imparting angular motion to the vertical shafts 7 by meansof suitable lever arms through the agency of some appropriate drivingmechanism, such as a crank with accessories.

In the construction illust-rated the left back wheel 2 drives throughbevel-wheels 9, 10 and the shaft 11 the pair of spur wheels 12, 13. Withthe pinion 13 of this pair of wheels is connected a crank dise 14 with aradially adjustable crank pin 15, engaged by one end of a connecting rod16, the other end of which is hinged to a lever 17, keyed to thevertical shaft 7 upon which the arms 8 are mounted. rIhe other shaft 7with its arms is operated by the connecting rod 18.

This machine operates in the following manner: The shares 8 dig and liftup the turnips together with the adhering soil and the soil in frontforces the turnip up and along the guides 6 into the shaking device inwhich they are detained for a time owing to the swinging motion of thearms, being thrown from one side of the basket to the other whereby thelarger portion of the soil adhering to them drops off and the turnipsare thus cleaned and finally discharged from Athe machine when they dropto the ground where they can easily be picked up by hand. The turnipsmay, however, equally well be discharged into a suitable receptacle.

When the digging and lifting work has been finished, the frame i withthe shares 3 andl the shaking device may be raised by means of ahand-lever 19, whereby the clutch 2O for the drive is automaticallythrown out of gear.

I claim:

l. In a device of the kind described in cou'ibination, means for liftinga turnip from the ground and for guiding it towards the rear, a verticalshaft near said guiding means, means for rocking said shaft and an armon said shaft extehding sube stantially in parallel with said guidingmeans.

2. In a device of the kind described in combination, means for lifting aturnip from the ground and for guiding it towards the rear, a verticalshaft en each side of said guiding means, means for rocking said therear, a vertical shaft on each side of said guiding means, means forrocking said shafts and slightly converging arms displaeeably arrangedon said shafts and eX- l tending substantially in parallel with said Yguiding ineans.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

vCLAv OTAKAR DEYL.

Witnesses:

MiLosLAv HnUB', Josnr NovY.

